tomorrow's the big day!

[realthog]

Yes, all over the US people will be forming long lines, sometimes standing in wait for hours, in order to hear the latest news about my progress in the operating theatre.

 

I'm hoping this will be the last of my seemingly interminable sequence of adventures under the bright lights. The surgeon is planning to implant three arterial stents (or kissing stents, as the technical jargon charmingly calls them), two in the iliac region for arteries supplying the legs and one in a renal artery. I should be home by mid-/late evening, and expect to clank as I walk.

 

Just so long as I can get up the stairs to watch the election results come in . . .

 

I don't care who you plan to vote for -- Barack Obama or that lying warmonger McCain -- but, if eligible, make sure you vote!

Comments

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

Just don't get into a political discussion with the surgeon until after he's stented you...

[realthog.livejournal.com]

As an intelligent fellow, he's of like mind to me.

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

Okay. Well, it's been nice knowing you...

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

Hahahahahaha!

[charlesatan.livejournal.com]

Good luck and take care!

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll try my best . . .

[nick-kaufmann.livejournal.com]

Best of luck, and a speedy recovery!

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Thanks! In fact, it's a pretty trivial operation, so far as the patient's experience/risk goes. (I gather it's not so trivial in terms of technological sophistication and surgical skill, but the surgeon is a top flight specialist at this.)

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

If it's any of my business, what happened? It's not just because I'm worried about you, understand: it's that I want to make sure that if you decide to come after me, I have enough gold dust to clog up your chest unit.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

The stents are to ameliorate peripheral artery disease. This is the tail end of a series of procedures that began months ago with various diagnostic items, including an angiogram among various other less invasive excitements; then there was the triple bypass; then another blasted angiogram to doublecheck if my carotids needed reaming out (they don't); and finally this latest effort. If he discovers he can't do all three stents tomorrow (they have to be careful with the amount of the contrast fluid they pump into you in any one session), I'll be back in the operating theatre in a couple of weeks for yet another op.

[louismaistros.livejournal.com]

Tomorrow I will be voting for Barack Obama and his trusty running mate: A. Speedy Recovery!

Best of luck, my friend.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

"Tomorrow I will be voting for Barack Obama"

That knowledge will pull me through all adversity . . .

[louismaistros.livejournal.com]

There's actually quite a lot of us, you know.

;-)

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"There's actually quite a lot of us, you know."

Not after the Diebold machines have finished the counting, there won't be.

[louismaistros.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm worried about that, too. I think the election has to be pretty close for that sort of cheating to work, though -- and it really doesn't look like it will be close at all.

But yes, the suspense is killing me as well.

[louismaistros.livejournal.com]

BTW, if you haven't heard it yet, here's something to raise your spirits:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4aHL12vtEM

The timing of this thing's release is fairly delightful.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Yes. As I commented elsewhere, the worst thing -- even worse than the ignorance and dimwittedness -- is that this jumped-up small-town Alaskan mayor tries to be patronizing to an internationally significant politician -- as if he's a quaint little Frog who has to be humoured.

So embarrassing for us in this country!

[louismaistros.livejournal.com]

Even more embarassing for John McCain. I swear she's out to kill him with this stuff.

On Tuesday night, if the election is called for Obama, I'll consider all this Palin stuff to be very funny and quaint. Otherwise, it's just plain terrifying.

[ellenscult]

Ouch! Best of luck - I hope it all goes well and that you heal up quickly.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

"that you heal up quickly"

To judge by the experience of the angiograms, the healing shouldn't take long.

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

You won't forget November 4, 2008 any time in your subsequent life, it seems.

May it all go very well, sweetie.

Love, C.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Yes, it'll be like one of those "where were you when Armstrong & Aldrin landed on the moon?" affairs, won't it?

"May it all go very well, sweetie."

thanks!

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

Tace kare of youself, Paul, and the best of lukc tomorrow. Wishing you a speedy rekovery!

Hugs and kisses! :)

Jody

PS: Hutch explained "kodswallop" to me. I am now enlightened. It's either an olde English dance or fish soup.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"It's either an olde English dance or fish soup"

Then he was giving you the polite version. I'd check a good dictionary before using the term in mixed company . . .

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

"I'd check a good dictionary before using the term in mixed company . . ."

Will do. But chances are I'll not use the term with anyone other than you. ;)

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"chances are I'll not use the term with anyone other than you"

Well now you've made me blush . . .

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

You're a devil, Paul.

And anyway, it's spelled "codswallop".

Were you the last child or something? You're a stinker, that's for sure.

[quietselkie.livejournal.com]

Will you set off the metal detectors at the airport after this procedure?

Take care, and we'll see you on the flip side.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"Will you set off the metal detectors at the airport after this procedure?"

Apparently not. I've no idea what the things are made of, to be honest.

[jmward14.livejournal.com]

Sending the best possible medical juju. Take care {{{{realthog}}}}}! Healing hugs, Jean Marie

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Thanks, sweet thing!